Prosecutor Margaret Pastuszak said police had gone to the apartment building on Hollis Street after a neighbor reported hearing a couple fighting.

When police arrived, they noticed the front door was broken, and could hearing yelling from a third-floor apartment. They knocked on the door and said "Police," and a man, later identified as Pimentel, told the officers to wait.

"Eventually, police forced the door open," Pastuszak said.

Inside, they confronted Lopez and Pimentel. Lopez said Pimentel had shoved her during an argument and physically held her, preventing her from leaving. Police did a "protective sweep" of the home to make sure no one else was there and saw a silver Cobra .380 handgun, a plastic bag with a sawed-off shotgun and what appeared to be a softball size plastic ball of some sort of narcotic, Pastuszak said.

Police got a search warrant and found several rounds of ammunition for both guns, 92 small sandwich bags containing more than 100 grams of a white powdery substance believed to be cocaine, 66 bags of a brown powdery substance believed to be heroin and a large block of heroin. The weight of the heroin is more than 90 grams, Pastuszak said.

"The amount of cocaine and heroin is excessive," she said

Lopez and Pimentel were both charged with trafficking in cocaine, trafficking in heroin, two counts of possession of a firearm without a permit, possession of ammunition without a permit and two counts of improper storage of a firearm.

Pastuszak asked Judge Robert Greco to hold both Lopez and Pimentel on $50,000 bail. She also asked Greco to revoke Pimentel's bail on three open cases - drug cases in Marlborough and Framingham district courts and one failing to appear in a court case from Marlborough District Court.

Pimentel's lawyer, Michael Brennan, argued that police had no right to search the apartment.

"They (Pimentel and Lopez) were in bed when the police came in and searched the house without a warrant," he said. "Basically, the police broke in and handcuffed him."

Brennan asked Greco to set bail at $5,000.

Lopez's lawyer, Meryl Kukura, said Lopez was overcharged and should be released without any bail.

Greco denied Pastuszak's request to revoke Pimentel's bail on the open cases and set bail at $10,000 on the new case. Greco also set Lopez's bail at $1,000.

Both Lopez and Pimentel are due back in court on July 23 for a pretrial conference.

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Norman Miller can be reached at 508-626-3823 or By Norman Miller

Daily News Staff

FRAMINGHAM - A call reporting a domestic dispute on Sunday led to the arrest of a Framingham couple on cocaine, heroin and gun charges, a prosecutor said in Framingham District Court on Monday.

Prosecutor Margaret Pastuszak said police had gone to the apartment building on Hollis Street after a neighbor reported hearing a couple fighting.

When police arrived, they noticed the front door was broken, and could hearing yelling from a third-floor apartment. They knocked on the door and said "Police," and a man, later identified as Pimentel, told the officers to wait.

"Eventually, police forced the door open," Pastuszak said.

Inside, they confronted Lopez and Pimentel. Lopez said Pimentel had shoved her during an argument and physically held her, preventing her from leaving. Police did a "protective sweep" of the home to make sure no one else was there and saw a silver Cobra .380 handgun, a plastic bag with a sawed-off shotgun and what appeared to be a softball size plastic ball of some sort of narcotic, Pastuszak said.

Police got a search warrant and found several rounds of ammunition for both guns, 92 small sandwich bags containing more than 100 grams of a white powdery substance believed to be cocaine, 66 bags of a brown powdery substance believed to be heroin and a large block of heroin. The weight of the heroin is more than 90 grams, Pastuszak said.

"The amount of cocaine and heroin is excessive," she said

Lopez and Pimentel were both charged with trafficking in cocaine, trafficking in heroin, two counts of possession of a firearm without a permit, possession of ammunition without a permit and two counts of improper storage of a firearm.

Pastuszak asked Judge Robert Greco to hold both Lopez and Pimentel on $50,000 bail. She also asked Greco to revoke Pimentel's bail on three open cases - drug cases in Marlborough and Framingham district courts and one failing to appear in a court case from Marlborough District Court.

Pimentel's lawyer, Michael Brennan, argued that police had no right to search the apartment.

"They (Pimentel and Lopez) were in bed when the police came in and searched the house without a warrant," he said. "Basically, the police broke in and handcuffed him."

Brennan asked Greco to set bail at $5,000.

Lopez's lawyer, Meryl Kukura, said Lopez was overcharged and should be released without any bail.

Greco denied Pastuszak's request to revoke Pimentel's bail on the open cases and set bail at $10,000 on the new case. Greco also set Lopez's bail at $1,000.

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Both Lopez and Pimentel are due back in court on July 23 for a pretrial conference.